March is always an exciting time for us because we're preparing for hundreds of students to join us at Student DevCon 2018! Bigger and better than ever this year, we have a dozen workshops and three keynote speakers to help prepare our brightest minds for life beyond the classroom.

If you're not a student, there is still loads to do at Startup Edmonton in March & April, from meetups to workshops, Preflight to member socials!

We're celebrating a decade of demos with DemoCamp #40 on March 14 at CCIS. Scroll down to check out the throw-back lineup and all the great folks you can come out to meet this coming Thursday.

See you soon!

Student DevCon 2018 | March 24, 2018

Hands-on workshop sessions are one of the best parts of Student DevCon, and we have more options than ever before for students to choose from this year!

From Data Visualization to Artificial Intelligence, Gaming to How To Hackathon, we're excited to have great leaders from startups, scaling companies, and research institutes connect with our students from across schools and programs.

Your ticket is just $35 and includes meals, workshops, keynotes, swag, and a company mixer!

Tiffany Linke-Boyko and Stephanie Enders join forces to deliver workshop sessions one evening a week. Plus, lots of practice week-over-week to get you ready to speak publicly and confidently about your product, company, and plans for growth.

A DECADE OF DEMOS | MARCH 14 @ CCIS

Next week we celebrate ten years of DemoCamp, and we're excited to hit this exciting milestone. It's our most enduring community event for good reasons - awesome product, even better people, and time to connect over drinks.

"40 DemoCamps! Not bad considering I was told “that will never work in Edmonton” when we started DemoCamp 1! It’s been amazing to see not only how much DemoCamp has grown but how the community has grown, embraced DemoCamp and the startup community overall. Many of the companies that showed off their first version at DemoCamp have gone on to do amazing things, and the best part to see is the connections, projects, and companies that have come out of the interactions that happened at the beers after!" Cam Linke

RECOMMENDED READING | ACCELERATE FUND II INVESTMENT

A few weeks ago, our officemates Testfire Labs shared exciting funding news! They are the latest recipient of investment from the Accelerate Fund II. This investment will accelerate their go-to-market strategy and help move them forward into the U.S. market.

We're lucky to have Yaletown Partners, managers of the fund, with us as members of our Mercer Warehouse campus. Both of the Accelerate Fund II investments in Edmonton, Testfire Labs and Visio Media, are Launch Party alumni companies and active members of our city's startup community.

We have the pleasure of having a front-row seat to the successes of all of our member companies. As the Testfire team grows, it's wonderful to see them engage with the broader community, continue to build awesome side projects, and offer support to other founders and teams as they go through the same challenges. A huge congratulations on this milestone and we can't wait to see what happens next.

Click to read the full announcement and to learn more about Testfire Labs and its artificial intelligence (AI) powered software platform that helps enterprises to make meetings more efficient. Meet Hendrix!